Course Description

ECE 433a/b Communications Systems

Deterministic and random signals, time and frequency domain description, sampling theory; information, channel capacity, source coding. The course covers a variety of topics such as information theory and coding, digital modulations, transceiver design, performance analysis under noisy conditions, spread spectrum and multiple access, network/system architectures, system/ network modeling, coding techniques.

Prerequisite: Completion of third year of the Electrical Engineering program or permission of the Department, Statistical Sciences 241a/b, Applied Mathematics 376a/b or the former Applied Mathematics 371a.

Corequisite: ECE 451a/b

2 lecture hours, 1.5 laboratory hour, half course.

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